A man who is on a mission to save Thailand's street dogs says he is "massively grateful" to the hundreds of people - and their dogs - who joined him for a walk through Dublin's Phoenix Park last night.
Niall Harbison, who is from Co Tyrone but now lives in Koh Samui, put a call out yesterday morning inviting people to join him for a walk through the park.
"I put up a tweet and a post on Instagram and I expected maybe 50 people to turn up, and in the end, there were hundreds, maybe even a thousand," Mr Harbison said.
"I got out of the taxi and I couldn't believe what I saw. Just people full of love with their dogs."
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Mr Harbison's dog Snoop died last month. He says Snoop helped "to keep me alive through depression and addiction" and that Monday’s walk was in his memory.
"I used to walk in Phoenix Park with Snoop in darker days when I wasn’t doing so good in life, so it was a really joyous, wonderful event.
"I’m massively grateful to everyone for showing up."
Mr Harbison is a former chef and media entrepreneur who sold two successful companies before relocating to Thailand.
His efforts to rescue street dogs in Thailand have seen him gather hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
He shares the stories of the dogs he has saved, and how they "really saved me."
He has just released his first book, 'Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker'.
